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by chr1 8y ago
My argument is that eating them would become an accepted thing, and then at some point society would be having debates about replacing their meat with some other kind of food, very similar to what our society does about animals now. And my
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by chr1 8y ago
Perhaps ethics is not something absolute, and is a game thorethic optimal strategy that changes as the rules of the game change. If hunting is the only thing you can do sane ethics system would allow killing the whale no matter how intellig
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by chr1 8y ago
I can't see the legal system changing either, but thousands of years ago after a hungry winter i can't believe people feeding the non-growing children, or letting the real children to die because they don't want to kill and
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by chr1 8y ago
Because if people were not eating them wolfs would be, or they would not even be born.
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by chr1 8y ago
I would expect there to be very marked jump between the rockness and the computations with the simplest consciousness, that will allow to assign them to different classes instead of having a continuous spectrum going to zero with temperatur
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by chr1 8y ago
Another way for resolving the dissonance, is to assume that torturing young children is worse than torturing pigs because young children can become more sophisticated than pigs. But i agree with you that eventually we'll stop treating
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by chr1 8y ago
There is one important difference between other living beings and the model, in the case of other living beings you do not own the computer, you are not the one who started the computation, and you do not have a power to undo your actions.
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by chr1 8y ago
This is indeed very interesting line of thinking, and if one agrees that there is no soul, and there is no quantum process essential to life that can not be modeled on a classical computer, then this is the only remaining way of thinking. B
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by chr1 8y ago
This is not a joke at all, and was not an attempt to offend people's feelings, though it appears i did. I truly do not understand why people want doctors to be required to hold hands and make eye contact, when telling there's no c
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by chr1 8y ago
Why is eye contact and holding hand the right way? For instance I would prefer an email. Honesty is better than empathy as a job.
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by chr1 8y ago
Very soon gene drive eliminating all the mosquitos will save many more lives than a mosquito net can save at the fraction of cost and effort. But we would not be able to find it if we were only spending resources on things that save the max
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by chr1 8y ago
I am probably one of those people naturally equipped to deal with this job, but because i don't find this content shocking, i find it hard to empathize with the people who want it to be censored, so i would not want to take the job.
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by chr1 8y ago
Where did you find a definition about the culture? Searching genocide on google brings up only definitions including killing, and the word itself means killing people not culture.
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by chr1 8y ago
> and I doubt it would be possible to do so with the techniques being investigated the doublesex gene targeted by this gene drive is similar in all insects, so if this works we'll have a powerful tool not only against mosquitos, but
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by chr1 8y ago
In addition to the objective reasons why it is not possible mentioned by sibling comments, there is a subjective reason that many people don't like mosquitos, and think they deserve eradication independently from malaria.
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by chr1 8y ago
Maybe there is some process that makes the red ball to always go to the top, so the probability of finding it is larger than one to million. In both cases you do not have enough information to make any conclusions.
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by chr1 8y ago
chasing upstream is a lot easier than chasing web standards and chromes performance, especially if you are only interested in providing more powerful extension api and better ui
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by chr1 8y ago
> But of course big pharma can't make any money from these... Also lazy people (like me) can't make much use of these, because effect/effort ratio is not very good.
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by chr1 8y ago
This comment can be found on all hn threads about medicine. Maybe we need better models for testing? e.g. remove 14 day limit for testing on embryos, genetically edit mice to make them more like humans or make very small and short lived chi
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by chr1 8y ago
Playing devils advocate here, why a different engine is needed? Chrome clone can add webrequest feature too, and it would be much easier to maintain.
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by chr1 8y ago
It is worth to note that systems with preferred system of coordinates and "flowing" time can have Lorentz symmetry (for instance see https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/887/relativistic... ) so re
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by chr1 8y ago
There are also people trying to assemble life from simpler molecules that are commonly formed in non-organic processes. This series of presentation by Jack Szostak is rather interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqPGOh
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by chr1 8y ago
The orbits being ellipses instead of circles, center of mass being different from center of sun, precession because of general relativity effects, are all small corrections, and as described in Asimov's relativity of wrong suggested by
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by chr1 8y ago
> Physicists don't have any imagination to break past certain assumptions (e.g wave function collapse is random) This is not quite fair, after all Wolfram himself have worked as a physicist. What physicists do not do, is they do not
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by chr1 8y ago
Have you seen the blog post at question https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-re... ? It proposes the 4th way, that is the space is a graph, that only approximately maps to the 3d continuum, so
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by chr1 8y ago
Wolframs idea [1] is that space is a network, and closeness of points is determined by the links in the network. A particle is an extra structure that is connected to some of the nodes in the network, so if two particles are connected to no
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by chr1 8y ago
Geocentric vs heliocentric universe issue is an interesting example, because the geocentric version is not actually wrong, the whole point of the general relativity principle is that it geocentric an equally valid viewpoint. The trick was u
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Why do you think that consciousness is different from a self image in a neural network which is configured to use some effective learning algorithm? Of course there are other theories but they are just as unproven as this one.
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This wouldn't apply at all, because the majority needs to be indifferent, and there should be no other minority demanding the opposite.
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by chr1 8y ago
There can be unforeseen consequences, that's why nobody advocates to just randomly create gene drives for all the insects. The targeted species of mosquito is not the only one, it is an invasive species in many places, and everywhere t

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